Smyrna times., 1887-07-06
FIZZ, POP AND BANG.
THE PRESENTATION OF POINTS
PECULIAR TO PYRoTEcHNY.

PECULIAR TO PYRoTEcHNX.
How Spectacular Combustion Finds g
Market-FlrewOrIss No Longer NIonOpO-
lized by the Fourth of JuIy-COIIections
for Corporation Celebrations.
One does not have to overhaul his mem
Ory to any great extent to reach back to
the time when independence day was the
one day of the year when skyrOckets and
| pinWheels asserted themselves as q SYM
Dol of our cOuntry's greatness. Along in
the fall, it is true, when candidates for
| public office sought the suffrage of their
| fellow citizens, the Roman candle supple
mented the oil torch as an adjunct of co.
Itieal professions. But, as a general rule,
the fireworks that were not burned on
Fourth Of July night were carefully
packed away for next year. 1t is not so
any more. Pyrotechnic displays are prom
lnent attractions at summer resorts all
through the season, and the father of a
tamil y who takes his boys and girls in the
country to pass the heated months not
unfrequently adds q box of fireworks to
the Lares and Penates that he carries
along.
This fireworks package business has
grown to some considerable proportions.
hasn't ltY' asked the truth seeker
BOX COLLECTIONS.
'Wel, I guess you'd think So" REPLIED
the pyrotechnician. eve instituted the
plan of putting up these box collections
ABOUT sixteen years ago, and it has been
growing more popular every year. Want
TO know whyy Well, most people who
buy fireworks for a Fourth of July cele-
Dratlon very naturally put off the pur-
chase until the last minute. For that
matter, most purchasers of any kind OF
goods 90 the same thing, but Just stop
ana Vhlnk now the rule applies TO fire
WORKS When you consider what they are.
IL Is not TO be expected that a man WOuld
want box of them lying arouud iooec i'm
ms mouse Tor two or three weeks Yes.
If there's anything that's bought If the
eleventh hour, its fireworks. Then
again, not one person in twenty l.nows
what he wants. There is a general Cesire
Tor something that will make a sho,.. and
perhaps make noise, but the average
man knows only the commonplace names
OL pieces that will produce certain effects.
Ihey Know what bengola lights. triangles
anu mines are, but we can't expect the
president OF bank, or man who has
Haue fortune IN potatoes, to eXpend his
NaIuaDIe Time IN trying to learn the differ
ence between a saucissOn mine and n
tourbilliOn rocket.
30 we, as it were, do their thinking for
them, and put up a collection ACCORDING to
our knowledge Of results consistent With
the price charged for it. It's very much
cheaper for the purchaser. too. Now
there's collection packed ready for de.
nvery. We charge 80 cents for it inst as
1t stands. 1t contains thirty Dieces-none
OF them very elaborate, it is true but
what do you suppose you'd have to nav
Ior Them II you came in here and Duttered
around our stock, selecting this one here
ana thaC one there, and wasting at least
nan an hours time in doing it? We'll
here's our catalogue, and you can see nj
once that, If you bought each one of those
tllrUy pieces at retail, you'd have to nav
something over 81 for the lot, and thew
WOulun be so compactly packed for de.
HVery either. How could they be, under
the circumstances?
CORPORATION CELEBRATIONS.
upY' = N01i'o'io" uo you pu'
10 any amount that q customer u,on+,
IOr that matter, with cOrrasDOndino, ro+oss
OF discount as between wholesale and ro
tai prices, but for regular catalogue goods
we have 800 collection. This ie oGo.
quate to complete town or cornoration
celebration, and contains goods that vvonId
cost, at retail, just double the money
Ihere are pieces III it whose prices rano,e
from 30 to $40 when purchased singlv.n IS
nat 90 you mean by CORPORATION
CelebratiOns'?" P0' '''ioN
IN tell you. There are lots of mann.
Iacturlng concerns that come to MS evprv
year ana buy collection of fireworks for
1I slelr MINIS up IN the country. Only the
OUIer udy mil superintendent came in |
anu, anu gave me 500 order. 1T keeps the
goys at nome, he said, and they spend !
thelr money right in town instead of com. |
my 70 Boston. Very frequently the local |
Iradesmen chip in with the mills for n |
fireworks display for this reason
But, of course, we don't have IN do. |
pend upon the Fourth of July alone for |
business. You know it has become The |
regular thing to have pyrotechnic displays
at the summer resorts, and excursion |
parles often consider box of tireUorlre
champagne" '' 80 o "''0Ae' Vi
What have you to say about fire
FIRE crackers are no object to orr
l[tue nowadays. We have to keep them.
Oh course, because they are bound to he
IT popular Dut there is no profit in them.
Have you seen that American cannon
cracker, by the way, that was introduced
last year2 There's one point abont tbol,1
that's worth consideration Not tho
noise especially-of course we expect that
-buC the fact that no danger from fire
attends their use. When thev 90 off tbev
go Tor good and all, leaving no yestioe ~
a spark behind them. We're abead of
the Chinese in this respect at least. -
Boston Herald. -''''''